Detailed monitoring of devices, services, technologies, and trends that drive the growth of smart home gear. Includes extensive data, timely research, thoughtful insights, and careful analysis across the areas of energy management, IoT, home appliances, lighting, mobile devices, and security.

Amazon and eero announced on February 11th, 2019, that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Amazon will acquire eero. eero’s home mesh WiFi systems set up in minutes and blanket every room of a customer’s home in high-performing, reliable WiFi.

This report delivers a breakdown of the drivers, market players, expected future direction of the category, and which players are expected to prevail in the long run. Global unit shipments, revenue and installed base is provided in addition to pricing tiers and release dates of smart speakers.

At CES 2019, there was no shortage of exciting news and buzz for smart home and appliances. Lighting, security cameras, software integrations and voice assistants took center stage in smart home announcements, while for appliances, the big news was on displays, artificial intelligence (AI) and guided cooking.

The primary aim of this comprehensive global research is to assess current state of the small home appliances and personal care appliances worldwide and to forecasts future trends of the small home and personal care appliances industry. ...

Included in this report are major home appliances (white-goods), such as smart washing machines, smart clothes dryers, smart refrigerators, smart dishwashers, smart room air conditioners, and smart ovens that can be controlled, monitored, diagnosed remotely, and connected to a home automation system, smart speaker/digital assistants, and/or other connected device.

US telecommunications equipment maker CommScope will acquire Arris, in a $7.4B deal valued at $5.69 billion, with the difference comprised of CommScope’s assumption of Arris’s debt. As part of the deal, the Carlyle Group will make a $1M equity investment in CommScope for an approximate 16% stake in the new company.
CommScope’s CEO Eddie Edwards has claimed the two companies’ product lines are complementary, and that the combined company will “enable end-to-end wired and wireless communications infrastructure solutions that neither company could otherwise achieve on its own.”
The deal is expected to close in the first half of 2019.